{"id":13734,"date":"2026-06-20T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/the-many-benefits-of-healthy-vegetable-seedling-systems\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:30:04","slug":"the-many-benefits-of-healthy-vegetable-seedling-systems","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/the-many-benefits-of-healthy-vegetable-seedling-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"The many benefits of healthy vegetable seedling systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everywhere across the globe, children are always encouraged to eat their vegetables for a healthy diet, as fresh vegetables play an important role in nutrition. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), peri-urban vegetable farming can be quite lucrative. Surging rural-urban migration is resulting in rapid urbanization, requiring ever greater supplies of fresh food, especially nutritious but perishable vegetables. Vegetables, such as capsicum pepper and tomatoes, are particularly affected by pests and diseases. Their production, therefore, tends to attract more pesticide use than most other crops in the region. Given the often poor awareness of farmers regarding pesticide use and safety, we need to ask ourselves how healthy the vegetables we get in the market are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The answer can be alarming, with weekly pesticide sprays repeatedly administered by farmers who have little understanding of what, why, or how they need to apply such toxic chemicals. (Fig. 1). Vegetable growers intensively and continuously cultivate small land areas (often &lt;0.2 ha), which magnifies pest and disease problems, a major cause of crop loss and poor productivity. Applying synthetic pesticides is a common coping strategy, threatening the health of farmers, consumers, and the environment. Local regulatory frameworks for pesticide use are often difficult to enforce, allowing the entry and use of hazardous pesticides, including those that are banned elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/annualreport18.iita.org\/2020\/04\/20\/healthy-vegetable-seedling-systems-lead-to-increased-yields-lower-pest-and-disease-incidence-and-reduced-pesticide-reliance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lire la suite<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everywhere across the globe, children are always encouraged to eat their vegetables for a healthy diet, as fresh vegetables play an important role in nutrition.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":13735,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[],"news-type":[],"hub":[],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[197],"class_list":["post-13734","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","item-year-197"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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